Monday, 18 August 2014

I have worked extra-very-bloody-flipping hard this year. I haven't stopped. At all. I was dead busy in the run up to Surtex. And I've been dead busy since.So I'm having a couple of weeks off. In the sun. With my family. Who can't remember what I look like.Expect some smug photos on Instagram.

Sunday, 10 August 2014

We were meant to be going to Whitby today to see the Red Arrows. But at the last minute our nephew decided he wanted to celebrate his 18th birthday after all. So we had to ditch our plans and go out to stuff our faces instead. Lucky escape as it happens. It has lashed it down all day and it's proper blowing a gale. Standing outside in the horizontal rain waiting for a 20 second fly past isn't my idea of a good laugh. It also meant I had another spare minute to use my birds from this week. I found the plants I drew in MATS last year and added them in for good measure, no point wasting them...

Saturday, 9 August 2014

I've been so busy with proper work lately that I haven't had chance to do any of my own stuff. But I sneaked in a bit of sketchbook time this week and drew birds...I'll do something with them...one day...when I get a minute...

Sunday, 3 August 2014

We have this massive garden. And a distinct lack of interest in gardening. It's not a good combo. I spent 5 hours last weekend just cutting stuff down. It still looks like a jungle. But who has the time or the patience for gardening. You chop and prune and get covered in nettle stings and insect bites and it looks good for about 10 minutes...then it all grows back again. Bigger than before.We need one of those guerilla gardeners to pop by...if anyone knows one...